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The secret history of the St. Louis Post Office and its amazing pneumatic tube – Boing Boing

The secret history of the St. Louis Post Office and its amazing pneumatic tube
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In 1905, the St. Louis post office built a two-mile pneumatic tube system to deliver mail between the train station and the post office. It was expensive to maintain ($17,000 per year per mile of tube) and ruined a lot of mail. From Aimee Levitt's

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